Compiler optimization breaks multi-threaded code

[Michal Minich]

There is one question on SO which seems like a serious problem for atomic 
ops.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4165149/compiler-optimization-breaks-
multi-threaded-code

in short:

shared uint cnt;
void atomicInc  ( ) { uint o; while ( !cas( &cnt, o, o + 1 ) ) o = cnt; }

is compile with dmd -O to something like:

shared uint cnt;
void atomicInc  ( ) { while ( !cas( &cnt, cnt, cnt + 1 ) ) { } }

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